S5.E8 ∙ Back to the Music Box

Capital: Impressions of Early Empire tracks film director, Leigh Morfoot, as she injects her cast and crew into the live setting of a heated, economic protest. Seven actors inhabiting the characters of a cross- section of Washington D.C. twenty-somethings improvise their actions and reactions as they navigate a city under siege. Capital raises questions concerning the impact of "Globalization".

After their beauty-pageant-queen daughter beats leukemia, a family, living in a trailer park known for its guns and drugs, tries to put their lives back together in time for their daughter to make a run for Little Miss West Virginia.

'When People Die They Sings Songs' is a story of mother and daughter who resolve to uncover their wartime past buried half a century ago. After suffering a stroke, 93-year-old Holocaust survivor Regina is getting music therapy. Accompanied by music therapist, Regina sings Yiddish and French songs of her youth. Her daughter Sonia is with her at every session. This revitalizes their mother-daughter relationship and emboldens them to revisit their past. With Regina's help, Sonia tries to capture their family story. The past they were so eager to forget they are now anxious to remember. But Regina's memory is rapidly succumbing to dementia.

A group of university theatre students produce a student-directed production of Euripides' The Trojan Women with cameras capturing the entire process. Follow the director as he deals with actors, designers, and a couple of snow days. The students learn through the production about what it takes to put on a show.